blueflame1 wrote:Foxfyre, of course you gotta blame the messenger. This one is from UPI but you can blame them for telling the truth too. ISRAEL GAVE MAJOR AID TO HAMAS
Saturday, 24 February 2001 11:28 (ET)
By RICHARD SALE, Terrorism Correspondent
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UPI) --
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I didn't blame the messenger. I reported on the messenger. There is a difference. And there is a difference between writing what happened and putting an obvious pro-Arab, anti-Israel slant on it too.
Anyway your most recent link is to a different messenger. That Israel would have backed Hamas, one terrorist, organization, against their most insiduous threat, the PLO, another terrorist organization, back in the 1970's is not at all unusual or even insiduous. In the 1970's the USA built up Iran and maintained an embassy in Tehran until Khomeini raided it and took the staff captives during the Carter administration. By the 1980's we were financially assisting Iraq to keep it strong enough to successfully keep a growing Iranian threat busy, but of course we also created a monster we had to deal with more recently.
You will be hard put to name any country of any global significance who has not backed a questionable group or character at some point in its history. It is almost always to gain favor or a bribe for some purpose or to insure that a bad egg doesn't get strong enough to become a serious problem.